What Happens to Society if We Only Eat Plants? A Dutch Thought Experiment
What if we only eat plants? When a scientist and a landscape architect work together on future challenges, you get the project The Vegan Netherlands (Project Nederland Veganland). And they might have solved the housing problem… This guest post has been kindly contributed by landscape architect Berno Strootman, one of the people who researched how The Netherlands could be self-sufficient regarding food. Interestingly, and notably, in this hypothetical utopia, society would actually need more farmers. “According to our calculations, we need twice as many farmers in a fully plant-based system than in the present one,” Strootman explains. This is what happens if we only eat plants By Berno Strootman Suppose: everyone eats plant-based food and the import of animal fodder comes to a halt. How …